Archive for April, 2008
Some Days You Just Can’t Write Anything
Today is one of those days.
No Going Back
Sometimes it hits. It’s rarely anticipated. That desire to feel that feeling you felt in the past. Maybe it was your first day of school, or your first kiss, or your first home run. Maybe it was that night when you did that thing, or that afternoon when you did that other thing. Maybe it […]
OPW: Reallocating Social Surplus
Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody, has some very interesting ideas about how the internet’s changing society and why. So on today’s “Other People’s Words,” a selection from a recent speech he gave on the topic. Video of the speech is available, as is the full transcript.
He begins by describing the role gin played […]
Length and Strength
If you’ll indulge me, I’m going to try something. I’ll present the same argument three different ways. I hope that by the end, you’ll understand why.
First
The length of an argument is directly proportional to it’s strength.
Second
Generally, the length of an argument is proportional to it’s strength. Barring excessively and pointlessly wordy arguments, five words are […]
How To Steal an Election
There have been a number of recent attempt to steal elections. Of course not all have succeed, and probably, not all have been known. Though I don’t have much advice about how to keep your fixing from being known, I have some ideas about how you can succeed despite it being known.
First, there are some […]
